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I am writing this from Anchorage, Alaska, where my two youngest daughters and I have come for spring break to visit a friend. I haven't seen him in...
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Vodcast viewers may remember my recent conversation with education genius and Marion superintendent Dr. Glen Fenter...
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Today's installment of the Epstein Unraveling--my last, for my sanity's sake as well as my editor's--is how we got from the piddly jail time Epstein...
In March 2005, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of Jeffrey Epstein took her child to the Palm Beach County Police Department to report the abuse....
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I wrote a column in August which I lovingly referred to a piece by John Brummett. Lovingly, because I agreed with him. The gist of his column was...
In response to my Sunday column about spiritual abuse, I received what I believe is a sincere email from a man in his 60s. I edited the part in...
An event called "Fields of Faith" was held recently at the Ozark High School football stadium.
Democrat-Gazette onlineThis past weekend the girls in our family made our annual pilgrimage to War Eagle, which culminates in Eureka Springs.
The reason I don't write about this every week is because I am multi-dimensional, like every other human, and multi-opinioned.
Democrat-Gazette online Writing about events unfolding in Israel and Gaza is a pickle for a person like me who does not trust Donald Trump. And it's...
The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the word "democracy" appeared for the first time in the English language in the 13th century.
Democrat-Gazette onlineI am back from Paris.
PARIS, France--I am lounging in a park called Place des Voges in Le Marais, a neighborhood that spans the third and fourth arrondissements.
Earlier this semester I wrote about my decision to go "old school" in the classes I teach. This meant no phones, no computers; nothing but a writing...
I started a recent day in a flimsy gown on a table at Mercy Cardiology in Fort Smith.
I am tired of writing about Charlie Kirk. Tired of thinking about him, hearing about him, reading about him, seeing posts on social media about him....
Human beings live in a constant state of change.
Democrat-Gazette online I first heard of Charlie Kirk from author Tim Alberta, in his book "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American...
Last Sunday I wrote about the experience I had as a normal citizen who believed the best in our government and went to significant effort to engage in...
I sat down to write this column about something else. And then I saw the date. And nothing else seemed appropriate, really, except to remember. I was...
This week in Comp 1 my students' assignment is to write about one event in their lives that changed their perspective about something big or small.
Democrat-Gazette online Someone at the university decided our offices needed repainting and new carpet. I agree, but such updating requires that I...
This was my first full week of classes at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus for the fall semester.
Democrat-Gazette online On Aug. 26, 1965, my granny and Pa Harper heard on the news that young men who were married by that date would be less likely...
There is a sort of paralysis I feel about writing almost anything political.